Multiple Search Engines On One Page
Topic: General

Sputtr is a search engine that lets you find results from several resources directly through one page. From Google maps to Google groups, Reddit, Snap, Twitter, MySpace, Flickr and Wordpress, there are many, many types of searches you can perform in order to get the results you may be looking for. The sputtr site itself is basic and easy enough to use: similar to a Google search, you simply enter your search term. Then choose the search group you’d like to get results for.

Draw and Share Diagrams on the Web
Topic: All subjects
Use this free web service to create diagrams and drawings. Flowcharts, mindmaps, network diagrams, etc. Provides the html code for embedding your work in blogs, wikis and websites and URLs for creating links. Diagramming in your web browser without downloading additional software. Desktop application feel in a web-based diagramming solution. Add collaborators to your work and watch it grow.

Learning Circuits Big Question - Where is the eLearning?
Topic: Instructional Design

In response to Learning Circuits big question, “Where are the examples of eLearning?” I have pointed to the wiki for the Digital Media subject “Relate to Clients on a Business Level”. This wiki illustrates a model for the integration of wikis, blogs and widgets in elearning. The  power of three.

The wiki provides a gateway to teaching and learning resources and its structure is based on the subject’s learning outcomes. A “work in progress” wiki space is provided for each student.

The widgets are used to enhance teaching resources. They include,

Scribd: presents online documents that can be listened to, scrolled, enlarged and scanned, and downloaded.

SlideShare: presents PowerPoint presentations,

Odeo: presents podcasts and a sidebar player that automatically updates as the teacher adds podcasts to Odeo.

Bubbl.us: presents mindmaps and flowcharts that can be enlarged and scanned.

ProProfs: presents online formative assessment quizzes.

The blogs are created and maintained by students as a portfolio of their assessment events that in turn utilize a range of widgets for presenting results.

From a teacher who has spent many years developing eLearning using programming languages, software applications, and authoring systems this trio of Web2.0 applications is the way to go.

3D Search Engine
Topic: General
The SpaceTime 3D search functionality loads multiple search results as a stack of separate pages. Unlike ordinary search, which returns a list of links that you have to click one at a time, SpaceTime simultaneously loads 10 results at a time, each in its own window. Using a mouse or keyboard, users can then quickly and easily flip through the results, re-arrange the pages or manipulate them as desired. This search functionality supports Google, Google Images, Yahoo!, Yahoo! Images, Flickr, eBay and others.

Mind Mapping
Topic: General

The Mind42 service enables you to create a mind map for any purpose. Easy editing tools allow for quick changes, and a variety of functions are available for the entire mind map as well as individual nodes on the mind map. Include images and attachments for a specific node, such as a wikipedia article, or a to-do list. Make mind mapping branches for the various items involved in a particular task, and keep track of changes with the revision history. Invite and manage others to collaborate on a mind map with you.

Create Your Own 3D Web Space
Topic: Website design

3B is a fun new web experience. 3B allows you take any web sites or photos and place them in a personalized 3D space, your 3B village. You can use MySpace, Hi5 or Bebo pages or photos you've loaded onto Flickr, Photobucket or any other web
service.

Free Website Creation
Topic: Website design
Use Infogami to create free websites. One-click editing lets you fix typos instantly. With customizable templates your site looks just the way you want it to. Detailed graphs let you see how many people are visiting your site. Full revision history lets you see who wrote what when. Fine-grained permissions let you decide what people can edit and what they can't. Every site gets a built-in weblog you can post stories to.

Develop Flowcharts Online
Topic: General

Flowchart is an online tool that lets you create flowcharts. With Flowchart, you can choose from a good variety of existing templates offered in its library, for items such as Mindmaps, project management, and engineering charts. The WYSIWIG editor operates smoothly to let you type, add clip art and photo images, edit the colors, modify item transparency and resize items, among other things. Charts can be saved or printed, and you can invite others to collaborate with you on a particular chart.

If you can hear it, you can record it!
Topic: Podcasting

"Record internet radio and save to mp3 or wav. Record streaming audio from the Internet, microphone, or any other source for that matter. MP3myMP3 Recorder works directly with your system sound card - if you can hear it, you can record it! Use the scan tool to list all mp3, wav, aif, swa, or sun au audio files on your computer - then play and record portions of any of these files."

A New Way to Build Web Pages
Topic: Website design
Popfly is the fun, easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, Web pages, and applications. Popfly consists of two parts. Popfly Creator is a set of online visual tools for building Web pages and mashups.  Visually Design Your Page without writing code using the same technology that powers the Microsoft Office Live Web Designer. Use Blocks to do things like get their photos from Live Spaces or Flickr and visually display them using Silverlight blocks like a slideshow or an interactive photo carousel, all without writing code. Choose from over 150 different themes, 10 styles, and 30 unique color themes for a unique visual design. Go beyond the traditional static Web page hosting offered today and embed mashups, gadgets, and other dynamic content built by you or the Popfly community directly into your site.

ZOHO Notebook - Create, Aggregate, Collaborate
Topic: General

• ZOHO Notebook has just been released and it is a great tool for students and teachers *Create different types of content Create content of type text, image, audio, video, etc. * Aggregate your information in one place Embed content of any type from multiple applications. * Fine grained collaboration Share a whole book, page or just an object on a page by granting read/write permissions. * Version control Keep track of changes not only at the book or page level but also at the object level.

Sound Effects for Your Pocasts
Topic: Podcasting
Welcome to FindSounds.com, a free site where you can search the Web for sound effects and musical instrument samples. FindSounds Palette is a software program that lets you search more than one million sounds on the Web and helps you organize and search your own sound collection.

Become a Famous Teacher
Topic: Instructional Design

Sclipo, is an aggregating site for instructional videos. It has won first place in the Startup 2.0 Awards held May 24, in Spain. Upload your own instructional videos for the world to see and feel good about raising the standard of education, globally.

Sclipo’s presents how-to videos for all skills, such as cooking, overall health, technology and sports. The content is all user-generated and rated. Other winners.

Create Your Own Games
Topic: General

Another great, personalized widget.  Pictogame takes your photos and turns them into games. A zit squeezing game played on your friend’s face, for instance, or a puzzle that uses your face as the image or see how far you can kick your teacher.

Once you’ve made a game, it can be rated, sent by email and posted to your blog/wiki and other sites. Have fun.

Create Your Own Buttons
Topic: Website design
Make cool Web 2.0 buttons in only 4 steps and no registration required. MyCoolButton is a new Web 2.0 button generator that lets you choose the size, color, font and text for your button, then download it.

The Future of Magazines and The Future of Reading
Topic: General
Olive is an electronic publishing company. They transform documents stored in different formats on disparate systems to a unified XML-based digital format, allowing easy information retrieval. Users can search across document collections, individual documents, and sections within documents, and view the results through a Web browser. Read this active magazine, Blogger and Podcaster,  for a glimpse of "The Future of Magazines and The Future of Reading"

The Definitive Podcasting Guide
Topic: Podcasting

The PoducateMe Podcasting Guide takes the mystery out of: Finding and downloading podcasts - Selecting appropriate podcasting equipment and software - Recording, editing and polishing your podcast - Creating an "enhanced" podcast containing links and graphics - Uploading your podcast to the Internet - Creating a podcast blog - Sharing podcasts with your students - Much more!

Download and convert videos
Topic: General
There are dozens of tools for downloading videos from YouTube and other sites and then converting those videos to some format other than .flv. Here are 23 downloader tools that actually work. Here they are, categorized according to the platform they work on:

Online "Photoshop" Editor
Topic: General
FauxTo is a free online version of Photoshop. You can bring up images from your hard disk, from your webcam or from a URL (so a Flickr pic, for example) and then edit away to your heart's content. Best of all you can start layering up images, something most other online photo and design apps miss out but which allows you to create much more original graphics.

Typing Lessons Online
Topic: General
Typinglessons-online is an e-learning website. Teach yourself typing with 10 fingers with the help of the typing exercises. If you finish all the exercises with a good result, you will be able to type with all 10 fingers. The next step is to increase your typing speed.